Re: Problem in configure

[Clemens Helfmeier <clemens@helfmeier.de>]

Hi James,

This is a shell thing. It just ensures that the evaluation does not result in
if test = xno; then
(in case the variable is empty) and thus throw an error. with "x" it its like 
this for an empty variable
if test x = xno; then
which would work fine for shells.

The x does not affect the result of the evaluation since it is on both sides of 
the evaluation.

Bye,
 Clemens

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 09:08:09PM -0400, James Shewey wrote:
> This may be a nevermind situation. I was compiling on a 64 bit system.
> Changing the line described to if test "$grub_cv_prog_target_cc" = xno;
> then" Resulted in an error stating that neither start or _start was defined.
> This led me to the following post:
> http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56033. This led me to try
> compiling on my 32 bit system which worked just fine.
> 
> On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:29 PM, James Shewey <jdshewey@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > I believe that line 6938, which reads:
> >
> > if test "x$grub_cv_prog_target_cc" = xno; then
> >
> > May contain an error. Perhaps this should read
> >
> > if test "$grub_cv_prog_target_cc" = xno; then
> >
> > or
> >
> > if test "$grub_cv_prog_target_cc" = no; then
> >
> > ?
> >
> > -James
> >
> >
> >
> >

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